Oracle CODE Mexico City 2017

A fortnight ago I was travelling to Mexico City / Santa Fe to speak at the Oracle CODE event. It was a huge event, relaxed atmosphere and everybody seemed to have a great time learning new tech. Gossip was spreading that over 2000 people signed up for it.

Myself, I did a live-hacking session, explaining the reasoning from building an ‘artesania’ Docker Swarm cluster to moving to Oracle Container Cloud Service (OCCS) and Wercker. This included a complete CI/CD workflow: based on a simple git commit for a Spring Boot application, building a new Docker image that will be stored on Docker hub, and then pushed to OCCS . Yes, live on stage 🙂 and live in the cloud.

Maybe the biggest impact on my session had the Mexico vs. Germany football match that just ended a few minutes before my presentation. After Mexico not winning 1:4 against GER there were still some 100 people in the mood to attend my live hacking session. Many of those showed up afterwards to say hello and ask advanced questions which was a pleasant surprise!

This is part of the group. Can you spot Mini, the cluster? 🙂

Even after walking out of my session and hanging around in the foyer, I got heaps of questions from people asking me about clustering Docker containers, the reasoning and difficulty of building a Raspberry Pi based Docker cluster, how OCCS differs to all of this and why and how Oracle is involved in Docker.

Have you been there? Something worth to repeat? Share your opinion about the event as a comment.

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